Patrick Buchanan: What are America's core values?

Pompeo should have just said

"My duty is America first, so America flag only...."

Gay flags are political in nature, thus no way Jose

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

how do you not know what America's core values are? are you American?

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 many Americans, diversity — racial, ethnic, cultural, religious — is our greatest strength. Yet Poland and Hungary are proudly ethnonationalist. South Korea and Japan fiercely resist the racial and ethnic diversity immigration would bring. Catalans and Scots in this century, like Quebecois in the last, seek to secede from nations to which they have belonged for centuries. Are ethnonationalist nations less righteous than diverse nations likes ours? And if diversity is an American value, is it really a universal value?

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Poland and Hungary have an interesting history. They have generally always been to themselves and not really colonizers like their western European brethren. Same goes for the Japanese.

I think both perspectives are correct because both are natural conclusions to their respective populations. The English and French relied heavily on colonial rule to fund their empires. Their has always been interracial and intercontinental relationships with countries who had successful colonialism.

In order to be just like these other homogeneous societies then you should never have invested in colonialism and empire building.

Poland history in Animated form

Suibhne has an great history series with 10 minute long videos discussing the history of Poland.

Its important to note that Poland is a country that has rose to prominence only to fall in the Great Northern War and inevitably rise again only to be brought down AGAIN by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

It makes sense that a people constantly subjugated by their neighbors would be much more nationalistic. You have to take everything in context.

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Same goes for the Japanese.

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Ummm...



ETA: One of the worst things that happened to the GOP was the marginalization and excommunication of the Buchananite wing in the 90s.

He summed up our current national predicament very succinctly back in early 2008:

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We are an unserious people in a serious time.

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life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. how do you not know what America's core values are? are you American?

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Many Americans don't want other Americans to enjoy those pursuits
Many Americans are good with the pursuit of happiness part, but bad on liberty and life.

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To many Americans, diversity — racial, ethnic, cultural, religious — is our greatest strength. Yet Poland and Hungary are proudly ethnonationalist. South Korea and Japan fiercely resist the racial and ethnic diversity immigration would bring. Catalans and Scots in this century, like Quebecois in the last, seek to secede from nations to which they have belonged for centuries. Are ethnonationalist nations less righteous than diverse nations likes ours? And if diversity is an American value, is it really a universal value?


Buchanan raises some interesting issues in this article such as, what are core values? How do we decide who's values are right.
Where does a person derive their values?

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“The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Patrick] Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora] Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.”

— Trump, in a statement saying he will not accept the Reform Party nomination for president, Feb. 13, 2000

Pat....it's called Moral Relativism and that poison has corrupted every institution in this country (and the world) including our legal system.

It's a mess.

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Capitalism
Constitutional Republic
Bill of Rights

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None of these are values

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Admittedly, by colonialism I was referring to occupied territories that were later turned into colonies and ultimately became territories of their occupier.

WW2 occupied territories taken by the Japanese were mostly forfeited by the end of the War.

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Would those territories have regained their independence had Japan won the war?

I don't think you can realistically compare 20th century Japan with 20th century Poland and Hungary when it comes to imperial aspirations. But I do admire the Japanese immigration policy.